🔍 Where is That From

Easily find out what submod owns a topic!

Yes, it abbreviates to WTF.

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🌟 Features

A true must-have for everyone eager to try out new submods and those who have a ton of them and might need help finding where a certain topic comes from!~

• Tells apart official topics and submod topics
• Provides information on what the current topic name is
• Displays owning submod name and script file location

❓ Installing

1. Go to the latest release page and scroll to Assets section.
2. Download where-is-that-from-VERSION.zip file.
3. Drag and drop Submods folder from it into your game folder.
4. You're all set!~

📚 How to use?

Whenever you need to find out where is the topic you're currently going through is located and what submod owns it, press the W key or ? (question mark, might require holding down Shift ⬆ key) and the popup dialog window will tell you all the available info.

🙋 FAQ

Long story short, blame Ren'Py. Not MAS, not MAS developers, not WTF developers, blame Ren'Py for its poor design choices.

🤔 Why does it say 'seems' and 'might'? Why so uncertain?

Unfortunately, there isn't a reliable straightforward way to programmatically tell which file is exactly being used by Ren'Py right now for showing a certain topic; to somehow make do with that, Where is That From submod does a few tricks that aren't always reliable not are always accurate.

In addition to that, there is no way to know for sure that current topic will be accessible once you finish it, as it might perform some locking logic at the end and there is not way to tell if it definitely will be accessible again with confidence. Sorry for the uncertainty, but it can only do so much...

🤔 Why does it not detect the submod owning a topic?

Due to how Ren'Py works and how MAS handles events, there is no way to really tell for sure if some topic belongs to a file with some submod metadata in it. Where is That From submod tries to search for submod metadata in current topic file, and if there was none, it could also try to look around in neighboring files, however, in cases when .RPY/.RPYC file is placed right in game or game/Submods and not in its own folder, the search area is too broad and it cannot look around to find submod header and tell for sure without a high risk of getting a false positive.

Alternatively, it could be that submod just doesn't have a submod header. Submod developers may omit that bit for their own reasons, which prevents Where is That From submod from determining what submod is the script file provided by. But, it can at least tell what file contains the topic you're currently looking at.

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